Re: Query on so-called "correlated" characters, reply

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

I wrote:

> Actually, you might be able to try it yourself. You know the tetrapod 
> matrix by Ruta & Coates (2007)? It is chock full of correlated characters. 
> Maybe you should try playing with it. Speaking from experience, it doesn't 
> take much to tip the topology over.

While I'm already at bad-mouthing other people's matrices, the big amniote 
one by Hill (2005) is another example of atomized characters. No idea what 
happens when you fix that, though -- what I'm doing is to merge that matrix 
with several others and then merge all the correlated characters.